Armed Militia Takes Over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge HQ

The DOJ report nonetheless accounts for the vehemence of the response to the shooting, and also explains why so many people didn't consider the particular facts in that particular shooting as important as the larger history.

I know the usual suspect will accuse me of my usual false equivalence, but I see the same thing happening on this issue. Those supporting the occupiers are using their perceptions of history between the occupiers and their supposed supporters and the government as justification for the trespass/occupation.

Bundy has repeatedly said the group is prepared for the long-haul. However during a tour of the site on earlier in the day, the Guardian was shown a food storage room that did not look like it could sustain a dozen men for more than a few weeks.

It included a cardboard box of apples and oranges, a few dozen pots of instant ramen, 24 cans of chicken noodle soup, a similar number of cans of sweetcorn, peas, beans and chili, and 20 boxes of macaroni and cheese.

There were also three sacks of potatoes, one bag of flour, another of rolled oats, boxes of raisins, a single bag of pretzels and one granola bar.

If they die during yeehawd they get to sleep with 72 cousins.

Fritz.. reading that makes me want to vomit. Here I am about to quit my 8 year day job to start up a business. We're boot strapping a brick and mortar business. If there's one thing I believe more than anything is the way we'll use the technology (small unmanned aircraft) is that we can save lives. And the last thing either of us (Pagan monkey boy being my biz partner) wants is outside money from any source. You give us $500K right now and we'll turn that into a business that's pulling in 100 times that in five years. These people make me sick because they are as un-American (not anti-) as it gets.